{"id":36702,"date":"2017-05-07T16:07:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T14:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?page_id=36702"},"modified":"2020-02-02T11:33:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T16:33:22","slug":"e2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/episodes\/primer\/s1\/e2\/","title":{"rendered":"#103 Monsters \u2013 Primer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maria&#8217;s fears of the aliens are heightened when she has an encounter with Isabel who freely uses her powers to taunt her. Maria becomes unraveled, and ends up running her car into the back of Valenti&#8217;s. Liz tells Maria it&#8217;s important they stay in control.<\/p>\n<p>Isabel goes to Max saying she doesn&#8217;t trust Maria to keep their secret, but Max assures her he trusts Liz to help.<\/p>\n<p>Isabel makes the decision to &#8220;dreamwalk&#8221; Maria (Isabel enters Maria&#8217;s dream) to find out what she&#8217;s thinking. In the dream, Isabel realizes that Maria wants to tell Valenti everything she knows about the aliens.<\/p>\n<p>Maria becomes visibly distressed, when Valenti mentions he wants her to come in to discuss the accident. Liz urges Maria to stay in control, but Maria isn&#8217;t sure she can pull through. Maria reveals to Liz she&#8217;s torn, and can&#8217;t promise she won&#8217;t tell Valenti everything. Maria finds out for the first time, that Liz is also scared.<\/p>\n<p>On her way to Valenti&#8217;s office, Maria witnesses Isabel sharing a tender moment with her mother, DIANE EVANS, and realizes Isabel may not be all that different from herself. The stakes now high, Maria goes to her interrogation with Valenti. When Valenti warns Maria he doesn&#8217;t want any more families destroyed, Maria remembers Isabel with her mother and successfully stonewalls Valenti.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Max has accepted a job at the local UFO museum with Curator, MILTON ROSS, in order to find out all he can about the Crash.<\/p>\n<h2>Jason Katims Commentary<\/h2>\n<h4>JASON KATIMS COMMENTARY<br \/>\n\u201cIT WAS REALLY AMAZING TO SEE WHAT MAJANDRA DID\u2026\u201d<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yEDJCfNA_wQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><small>Transcribed by Lena<\/small><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The idea behind Monsters was to use <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Majandra Delfino, who plays Maria, and use <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">her fear to drive the episode and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">what we wanted to do was remind the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">audience &#8216;What it would be like if this <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">happened to you?&#8217; and Maria of all the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">characters is the most normal high <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">school human who reacts to things <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">appropriately and Majandra said that she <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">feels like she&#8217;s the only normal person <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the cast, because she is freaking out <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and that&#8217;s what people should be doing, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">if they found out that aliens exist. So <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we wanted to sort of drive that point <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">home to the audience through her fear of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this whole situation through her <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">discovery of the fact that there are <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">aliens out there and that sort of led to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a kind of comedic place with her about <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">her fears and thrilling her in a car <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with Isabel, who used her powers <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">deliberately to intimidate Maria. The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">really interesting moment for me was <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that great scene at the end between <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maria and Valenti, where you see Maria <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">start to crack under the pressure and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">literally breaks down and cries but then <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rises above it and stays strong and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">protects the secret of the aliens and it <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was really amazing to see what Majandra <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">did with that scene because until then <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I only sort of knew her as his wonderful <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">quirky actress and to see this other <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">side of her come out it was a wonderful <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">surprise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria&#8217;s fears of the aliens are heightened when she has an encounter with Isabel who freely uses her powers to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":36530,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"coauthors":[2262],"class_list":["post-36702","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36702"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42170,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36702\/revisions\/42170"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=36702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}